Global Connections Noontime Series - Strategic Missile Defense

The World Affairs Council of Maine
presents a Global Connections program

Strategic Missile Defense:

Shielded from Oversight

with Dr. Laura Grego

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tuesday, April 25th12:00-1:00 PM

Cohen Education Center, Osher Map Library, USM Portland

Free parking in the parking garage off Bedford Street

Free to members, $10 suggested donation for nonmembers to help support our programsBring your lunch

Laura Grego

Dr. Laura Grego focuses on the technology and security implications of national missile defense and of space security. She is the author or co-author of roughly 30 peer-reviewed, published papers on a range of topics, including cosmology, space security, and missile defense.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, she has been cited by Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, and NPR. She also has testified before Congress and addressed the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on space security issues.

Before joining UCS, Grego was a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She earned a doctorate degree in experimental physics at the California Institute of Technology and a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan.